Editing Montague (section)

==Abilities==
If Montague is attached to a diagram he can empower it. He does this for the perimeter to strengthen it and draw out potential invaders but whilst he does this people inside Kennet become more violent and aggressive. If done for a prolonged time he alters the function of a diagram or corrupts any practice he’s connected to.<ref>Mostly however Montague is providing us with power.  He can take some structure from diagrams and things and has been attaching himself to our perimeter to fuel it.  He does this for about an hour at the quietest time of night just before dawn.  The limited time is less about him having the power to spare (he does ok) and more about his influence inevitably altering the perimeter.  Left too long with it he would absorb it and make it a part of himself and alter its function.  As is he gives us an hour a day we can unplug the box Zed gave us and the perimeter will rev up but the atmosphere in town changes.  Similar influence to the aftermath of the carmine beast but revved up– fighting/violence/stress/more echoes.  Then for a few hours after (sunrise and city waking up) the perimeter will hum along nicely while plugged into the box. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/new-other-correspondence-1/ Excerpt] from [8.a Spoilers] New Other Correspondence #1</ref>

Due to his skills at working with [[Knotted Place|Knotted]] places he can be used as a tether to prevent people having to take an entire day to reach Kennet.<ref>“Hey, Montague,” Lucy said.  “Monty’s our tether?”<br><br>“A bit of a rough connection between Kennet and us.  He’s pretty okay at working inside folded and knotted spaces.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref>

If he takes over a car he can drive himself.<ref>“We don’t have far to go,” Reggie said.  “I’m glad Montague can mostly drive himself, because my eyes keep fogging up.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref>

He's only able to eat occasionally, feasting mainly on unwell animals.<ref>“A quiet one.  I ate, that was nice.”<br><br>“You eat?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Once in a long while.  I usually keep my diet to sickly animals.  I-”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/10 Excerpt] from [[Let slip 20.8]]</ref>

Probably immortal.<ref>If I assume I’m immortal, and I add eight hundred pounds of weight to my mass every time I eat a sickly bear, how many meals do I get in before I’m something noticeable that must be hunted?” <br>[...]<br>“You might be,” Verona said.  “I read up on horrors, and the nature of a horror’s lifespan is pretty wonky.  Most of the time it’s immortality, or… getting off the mortality train.  Sometimes a horror is, I guess to warn you, perfectly fine as an existence and then they explode into a mess of limbs that break under their own weight and die, or they implode into nothingness with next to no warning.  Can be spontaneous, can be specific triggers.”<br><br>“That’s good,” Montague said.<br><br>“Is it?” Lucy asked.<br><br>The clotted-blood-and-acid-melted-flesh spider-squid in a suit nodded.  “Better to have some surprise involved.  What use is a life, without the possibility of life’s end?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/10 Excerpt] from [[Let slip 20.8]]</ref>